Potential problem with PSU/CPU

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Scylin

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Hi there,

I've been having problems with my pc for a while. I have constant fps drops while I'm playing games that I should have no problem running.

Here's my PC:
Case
Aerocool Vx-E (5x 5,25" extern, 4x 3,5" intern)
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H (AMD 880G)
CPU
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (6x 2800 MHz)
GPU
Gigabyte GV-R685D5-1GD-B (AMD Radeon HD6850)
RAM
Crucial 2x4GB, DDR3, PC12800, CL9, Ballistix Sport
Harddisk
Samsung HD154UI (1.500 GB)
SSD
Plextor SSD 2.5", 256GB, SATA600, M5S
Fan
Alpine 64 Pro (939, AM2, AM2+, AM3)
PSU
Corsair CMPSU-600CX (600 Watt)

I've read around and noticed that my psu is not a very good psu in the corsair lines, which lead me to think it might've been the psu not delivering enough power, I've done a OCCT reading, which I will attach to this post.

Another thing that might be a problem is the temperature of my CPU, when I'm playing a game it's usually around 65-66 degrees celsius. I've read that high temperatures could cause the cpu to downthrottle?

And then the last thing, one of the games I'm playing is final fantasy 14 a realm reborn, and while I'm playing that I have OCCT running, and when I get a fps drop, I alt tab out of the game and check the graphs, I notice a fall in my mhz usage of my cpu, and a drop in the -12v of the PSU.

I'm not entirely sure how to read there graphs, so I'd love some input from you guys here to see if you guys can make any sense to me, cause I've no clue what the problem is and my fps has been dropping as long as I can remember.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6st3l4wbc3baptf/5BN_pKRn2K
That's a link to 3 folders, the alt tab folder contains screenshots from while playing FFXIV, CPU contains a 4 hour cpu test, PSU contains a 1 hour 20 minute psu test.

Thanks a lot in advance for even looking at it!

 
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dextermat
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Another thing that might be a problem is the temperature of my CPU, when I'm playing a game it's usually around 65-66 degrees celsius. I've read that high temperatures could cause the cpu to downthrottle?
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Temps are a little high for the cpu, cleaning the dust and reapplying thermal paste might help to cool it better. I would check into that first

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Hi - It is true Corsiars CX series is not the best, but I sincerely doubt that it is the source of
your problems. Corsairs, even the budget cx series almost always surpass their
publ specs. The issue with the cs series is really more of longevity, due to the use of
lower quality capacitors than the TX,HX, or AX series, than out of the ]box performance.

I would suspect GPU card or drivers, even possibly bad ram in this instance before I'd
suspect the PSU.

Plz insure that any/all old drivers have been removed, run memtest on your ram, double check
that your GPU is seated firmly. Also, if there's the possibility of running that GPU in another PC it
could rule the GPU itself in or out as the possible culprit.

 
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Hi,
Another thing that might be a problem is the temperature of my CPU, when I'm playing a game it's usually around 65-66 degrees celsius. I've read that high temperatures could cause the cpu to downthrottle?
Click to expand...

Temps are a little high for the cpu, cleaning the dust and reapplying thermal paste might help to cool it better. I would check into that first

 
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Scylin

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Hey,

Thanks for your reply!

The drivers on my PC are all up to date, I did a complete reinstall of my whole PC a few weeks ago, downloading all the latest drivers for gpu and such, I also have the latest BIOS update.
In regards to the RAM, I had to do a reinstall because I bought new RAM and a new SSD, so I honestly very much doubt that would be the case.

My GPU is placed firmly in the PC, so that's I guess that's not the culprit. I don't really have the opportunity to test the GPU in a different computer, I might be able to, but I really doubt it's the GPU at this point.

As I said in my opening post, the temperatures, could that be a problem? And the -12v of the PSU drops a lot while it was being tested, now I don't know anything about power supplies and voltages but I read that the -12v shouldn't go under -11.2 when it's under stress?

Once again thanks for your reply! I really want to get this fixed. :)
 
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Scylin

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Thanks for your reply :). I've recently cleaned the computer out, so I doubt dust would be the issue, I'll check the thermal paste though. Thanks for the tip.

EDIT: Here's a picture of the inside of my PC, it doesn't really look clogged up with dust tbh, there's some dust, but I doubt that'd be the issue?

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Scylin

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Small update: I've downloaded HWmonitor by CPUID and I've been monitoring my temps a bit, I made a screenshot of it while I have a game (Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn) running. The temperatures I suspect are WAY too high, and I see that the wattage that the PSU supplies to the CPU drops?

Not sure if the programmes' readings are accurate, but then again I'm not the professional here.

Picture:
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Scylin

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I found out the problem was the CPU bottlenecking due to the temperature. The CPU cooler that was installed on it didn't have nearly enough power to keep the badboy cool.
 
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